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TIL “King” in a snake’s name signifies that it preys on other snakes and that the king cobra is so named not because it is a cobra but because it typically hunts cobras

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M9o0 TIL in 2015, a top Russian Military Strategist recommended dropping a Megaton-Class Nuclear Bomb on Yellowstone National Park, catalyzing a Supervolcano Eruption that could kill more than 50% of the U.S. population in the first 24 hours. He recommends such action if “tensions should ever boil over”.
QJJDE TIL In 1916, the German Empire allowed citizens to take passport photos with their dogs.
GAv5E TIL many years before WW2 or even WW1, Germany had a concentration camp on an island off the coast of Namibia.
VMGGZ TIL about Guerrilla Grafting. It's the illegal process of turning city maintained sterile fruit trees into fruiting trees by splicing compatible branches onto the sterile trees with branches from fruiting trees.
wLeM TIL Asperger’s syndrome used to be called “autistic psychopathy”